Legend: BTD – Born Today OTD – On This Day
| Date | Artist/Group | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTD Apr17,1934 | Don Kirshner | #BTD Apr17,1934 #DonKirshner RIP music publisher, rock music producer, talent manager, songwriter & launched careers of #CaroleKing #NeilSedaka #HarryNilsson as well as successful pop groups, such as the #Monkees, #Kansas and the #Archies | |
| BTD Apr17,1940 | Billy Fury | #BTD Apr17,1940 #BillyFury (Ronald Wycherley) RIP actor, singer, songwriter 1961 UK #3 Halfway To Paradise & UK #2 Jealousy, +24 Top40 UK singles. Played Stormy Tempest in the movie "That'll Be The Day". Without a #1 hit, spent 57wks in the Top10 & 281wks on the UK singles chart | |
| BTD Apr17,1943 | Bobby Curtola | #BTD Apr17,1943 #BobbyCurtola (Robert Allen Curtola) RIP #Canadian singer, teen idol 1962 CAN #5 & US #41 "Fortuneteller", 1962 CAN #11 & US #92 "Aladdin", 1963 CAN #3 "Indian Giver", +28 Top40 CAN singles | |
| BTD Apr17,1943 | Roy Estrada | #BTD Apr17,1943 #RoyEstrada (Roy Ralph Moleman Guacamole Guadalupe) bass guitarist with #FrankZappa and the Mothers of Invention & founding member of #LittleFeat. He is in a Texas prison; convicted for sex offenses, not be eligible for parole until 2036 | |
| BTD Apr17,1948 | Jan Hammer | #BTD Apr17,1948 #JanHammer keyboards #Mahavishnu Orchestra & solo 1985 US #1 & UK #5 "Miami Vice Theme", 1987 UK #2 "Crockett's Theme" +composer/producer of 14 original film soundtracks, the music for 90 episodes of "Miami Vice" & 20 episodes of the TV series "Chancer" | |
| BTD Apr17,1954 | Michael Sembello | #BTD Apr17,1954 #MichaelSembello guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, singer 1983 US #1 & UK #43 "Maniac", +2 US AC (Adult Contemporary). Maniac was featured in the film "Flashdance" #HBday @Sembello | |
| BTD Apr17,1955 | Pete Shelley | #BTD Apr17,1955 #PeteShelley guitarist, vocals, leader of #Buzzcocks 1978 UK #12 single "Ever Fallen In Love, With Someone You Shouldn't 've" @Buzzcocks and solo career released his first solo single 1981 US Dance #14 "Homosapien" | |
| OTD Apr17,1953 | Lita Roza | #OTD Apr17,1953 #LitaRoza at #1 on UK chart with "(How Much) Is That Doggie In Window" written by Bob Merrill. Roza is the 1st British female at #1 in UK and 1st Liverpudlian (also called Scousers because of the accent of Liverpool and the surrounding county of Merseyside) | |
| OTD Apr17,1957 | Elvis Presley | #OTD Apr17,1957 #ElvisPresley is still at #1 on the US Top40 Singles chart with "All Shook Up" for the 2nd week of an 8wks run at #1 @ElvisPresley | |
| OTD Apr17,1960 | Eddie Cochran | #OTD Apr17,1960 While on a tour of the UK 21yo singer #EddieCochran dies at the age of 21. The taxi he was in crashed into a lamppost on Rowden Hill Chippenham, Wiltshire. His fiancée songwriter #SharonSheeley, tour manager #PatThompkins & singer #GeneVincent survived the crash | |
| OTD Apr17,1964 | Beatles | #OTD Apr17,1964 The #Beatles are interviewed by #EdSullivan at the Les Ambassadeurs Club’s walled garden while working on the movie "A Hard Days Night" | |
| OTD Apr17,1964 | Beatles | #OTD Apr17,1964 The #Beatles continue filming the movie "A Hard Days Night" at Les Ambassadeurs shooting the discotheque sequence | |
| OTD Apr17,1964 | Kingsmen | #OTD Apr17,1964 The FBI lab reports that it could NOT determine any obscenity of the lyrics to "Louie Louie" by The #Kingsmen. The song was originally written in 1955 by #RichardBerry @FBI | |
| OTD Apr17,1964 | Beatles | #OTD Apr17,1964 The Official announcement that the name of The #Beatles 1st movie is going to be "A Hard Day's Night" There are various version of how this title came about but they all attribute the title to #RingoStarr. The original tentative title had been "Beatlemania" | |
| OTD Apr17,1965 | Freddie and the Dreamers | #OTD Apr17,1965 #Freddie and the #Dreamers are still at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 singles chart with "I’m Telling You Now" for the last week of a 2wk run at #1 | |
| OTD Apr17,1965 | Paul McCartney | #OTD Apr17,1965 #PaulMcCartney spent the day shopping for furniture on Portobello Road, London disguised in a cloth cap, mustache, glasses, overcoat | |
| OTD Apr17,1966 | Beatles | #OTD Apr17,1966 The #Beatles recording at #EMI Studios in London. Working on the song “Doctor Robert” written by #JohnLennon; Paul McCartney has said that he co-wrote it. The Beatles record the track in 7 takes with vocals overdubbed on Apr19 | |
| OTD Apr17,1967 | Bobby Sherman | #OTD Apr17,1967 #BobbySherman is on The #Monkees TV show episode #31 "Monkees at the Movies" Sherman plays a snobbish movie idol Frankie Catalina. After The #Monkees upstage him during the productionof the beach movie, Catalina walks off the movie | |
| OTD Apr17,1967 | Joey Bishop | #OTD Apr17,1967 The #JoeyBishop Show debuts, a TV talk show program on #ABC's nighttime schedule from 11:30pm–1am with sidekick #RegisPhilbin. The show would end by December 1969, this is the same time slot at #JohnnyCarson's Tonight Show | |
| OTD Apr17,1967 | Monkees | #OTD Apr17,1967 The #Monkees TV series S1 E31 "Monkees at the Movies" Monkees extras in a beach movie, have a run-in with a snobbish movie idol Frankie Catalina (played by Bobby Sherman) Catalina walks off, so Monkees push Davy into the limelight as the new teen idol @TheMonkees | |
| OTD Apr17,1970 | Santana | #OTD Apr17,1970 #Santana began sessions on the album "Abraxas" at Wally Heider Recording Studio #SanFrancisco. The LP will peak at #1 on the US chart. Santana personnel: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, David Brown, Michael Shrieve, José "Chepito" Areas, Michael Carabello | |
| OTD Apr17,1971 | Three Dog Night | #OTD Apr17,1971 #ThreeDogNight starts a 6wk run at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 Singles Chart with "Joy To The World" written by #HoytAxton. Three Dog Night's 2nd #1 | |
| OTD Apr17,1973 | Pink Floyd | #OTD Apr17,1973 #PinkFloyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" went gold. Pink Floyd will stay on the US Album chart for more than 10 yrs @pinkfloyd | |
| OTD Apr17,1975 | Elvis Presley | #OTD Apr17,1975 #ElvisPresley buys a Convair 880 Jet for $250,000, which he re-christens as Lisa Marie | |
| OTD Apr17,1976 | Johnnie Taylor | #OTD Apr17,1976 #JohnnieTaylor is still at #1 on the @billboard Hot100 Singles Chart with "Disco Lady" for the last week of a 4wk run at #1 | |
| OTD Apr17,1982 | Joan Jett | #OTD Apr17,1982 #JoanJett And The Blackhearts are still at #1 @billboard Hot100 with "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" for the 5th week of a 7wk run @joanjett | |
| OTD Apr17,1982 | Vangelis | #OTD Apr17,1982 #Vangelis (Evangelos Papathanassiou) is at #1 on US album chart with "Chariots Of Fire" Personnel: Vangelis all instruments; Ambrosian Singers choir with director John McCarthy on track 6 "Jerusalem" and engineers Raphael Preston, Raine Shine & John Walker | |
| OTD Apr17,1983 | David Bowie | #OTD Apr17,1983 #DavidBowie jumps straight to #1 and starts a 3wk run at #1 on the UK Album chart with the LP "Let's Dance" | |
| OTD Apr17,1988 | Iron Maiden | #OTD Apr17,1988 #IronMaiden jumps straight to #1 on the UK album chart with "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" Iron Maiden's second #1 LP @IronMaiden | |
| OTD Apr17,1998 | Linda McCartney | #OTD Apr17,1998 #LindaMcCartney (Linda Louise Eastman) dies at the age of 56. Musician, photographer, married to #PaulMcCartney one of the happiest and most durable marriages in pop |